Why Are We Ticklish?

Try 23andMe at https://www.23andme.com/braincraft SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! http://ow.ly/rt5IE My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill Our reaction to be tickled may be nature's way of encouraging self defence training from an early age. BrainCraft was created by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and is brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. A big thank you to Anna from Gross Science, Kelsey from Infinite Series and Jacklyn from SciJoy for being tickled for this episode. And thanks to Deep Look for their epic mosquito shot: https://youtu.be/rD8SmacBUcU Hosted, Animated and Produced by Vanessa Hill 🤺 Written by Teagan Wall https://twitter.com/TeagWall References 🗂 European fMRI study: Wattendorf, E., Westermann, B., Fiedler, K., Kaza, E., Lotze, M., & Celio, M. R. (2013). Exploration of the neural correlates of ticklish laughter by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebral Cortex, 23(6), 1280-1289. https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhs094 Tickling Rats: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.physbeh.2012.05.017 ‘‘Laughing’’ rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy: http://caspar.bgsu.edu/~courses/Reading/Papers/2003PanBur.pdf YouTube clips 💻 Chimpanzee: https://youtu.be/sd_C42ULpOE Penguin: https://youtu.be/R7dYuD0yg9Q Owl: https://youtu.be/Ajc6xr6mNeY Meerkat: https://youtu.be/880RAXPoBQ8